Zotero: capture your research resources on the go   Tags: bibliography, citations, discovery, documentation, research  

Tuesday, Nov 8, 2011
&
Thursday, Nov 10, 2011

Workshops will take place in the
Hanley Classroom
on the first floor of the
Warren Library.
Please bring your laptop for assistance downloading Zotero.

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Faculty Development Workshop for the MacArthur School of Leadership

Room 208
Warren Library

Zotero has produced several great how-to videos on their site that demonstrate step by step how to use Zotero's features.

This is a quick overview of how to save citations from the web.

More Zotero Screencast Tutorials

What Zotero Does

Zotero (pronounced "zoh-TAIR-oh") is a Firefox addon that collects, manages, and cites research sources. It's easy to use, lives in your web browser where you do your work, and best of all it's free. Zotero allows you to attach PDFs, notes and images to your citations, organize them into collections for different projects, and create bibliographies.

It automatically updates itself periodically to work with new online sources and new bibliographic styles.

Using This Guide

This guide is several pages long -- use the tabs across the top to navigate through topics, or the "Print Entire Guide" link in the bottom right to print the whole thing.

Zotero Quick Start Guide

See also this great guide published by the Zotero developers themselves. Also available as a PDF.

Zotero will run on any operating system. It requires Mozilla Firefox 3.0 or greater. Installation only takes a few seconds. To install:

1. Go to http://www.zotero.org/ and click the red "Download" button. Click "Install Now" and follow the instructions.
2. When you see the message “Firefox prevented this site from asking you to install software on your computer," click "Allow".
   
3. Restart Firefox and you're all set! You'll see a small Zotero button at the bottom right of your Firefox window.

If you have any problems, check the Zotero installation page.

Note: You'll probably also want to download and install the Microsoft Word citation plugin (or the OpenOffice plugin). These allow you to easily cite items from your Zotero library in your papers.

Please feel free to contact me for an appointment if you need some one-on-one assistance with downloading and getting started with Zotero. Call me or send me an email.

This guide has been adapted from the Zotero Guide developed by Jason Puckett at Georgia State University Library.

Many thanks, Jason, for your excellent work! Your new book is a major bonus.